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>>I am assuming that there are no 10+ character field names or triggers or other DBC specific stuff for the tables? If this is so, you can open the .DBC as a metadata table and delete the records. Delete where objecttype = Table and Objectname = "tablename" ... also delete all where parentid = parentid for the table record. This should work.
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>This will work for the dbc side of things, but a dbf that belongs to a database also has a link to the database with a relative path. That's why you don't have to OPEN DATABASE to use rules and other extended information when you USE the table.

The backlink is just after the end of the standard .dbf header, i.e. after the description of the last field. Its position is header() - 512 (or -256, look at the hex dump and you'll find it). To distroy the backlink, just replace it with nulls. Backup first, both the table and the database :)